TV Show

Destroyed In Seconds

Destroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that airs on Discovery Channel. Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, etc. The nature of the show closely resembles Real TV. The show uses real video of real events, and commentary explaining the destruction portrayed. Most videos have stock sound effects added. Some of the events seen resulted in fatalities, and all of the events have property damage. It is currently on hiatus.

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2 seasons

45 episodes total

Status

Returning Series

First Aired

2008

Rating

TV Show

7.3/10

7 votes • HD

People

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Season 1

33 episodes
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Episode 1
Episode 1

Episode 1

Episode 1 • Aug 21, 2008

Chesapeake Bay 9/30/81 – A US Navy Douglas A-4 Skyhawk crashes during a bomb test. Portland, OR – Two men attempt to save their lives, by outrunning a large mudslide. Nicaragua 11/4/02 - Eric Barone tries to set a land speed record on a volcano. Unfortunately, his bike broke in two when it hits a bump, tumbling Eric down the volcano. 5/12/02 A Danish windmill goes out of control and rips apart. Iran 1980 – Operation Credible Sport ends in a C-130 crash. Iowa – A tornado hits a bank. Alabama – Cars are sent into the air by a tornado that hits a parking lot. Milawukee, Wisconsin 4/11/89 – A Sikorsky S-58ET N4247U (November 4247 Uniform) operated by Midwest Helicopters crashes due to a failed coupling on the tail rotor, after carrying an old and faulty air conditioner from a roof. Bristol, VA 4/15/08 – A tanker truck fire is caught on tape by a police dashboard camera.

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Episode 2
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Episode 2

Episode 2 • Aug 21, 2008

Bakersfield, CA – A Speedboat hits the shore, flies over a hill, and onto a road. Luckily, the driver escapes just before the boat hits land. Puget Sound, WA – Footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge being built, and the November 7, 1940 footage of its collapse, killing a dog in the collapse. Thorold,Ontario 8/11/01 – MS Windoc crashes into a canal bridge, and catches fire, leading to an explosion. Thankfully, no one is killed. Okinawa, Japan 8/20/07 – China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire on the tarmac and has to be evacuated. Zambramnya, Iraq – An Al-Qaeda torture compound is blown up by a US missile strike. Guam – A B2 Bomber crashes on takeoff and is destroyed. Texas - A tornado rips the entire foundation off a house, like The Wizard of Oz; and has damaging hail. The next season, Stormchaser Alex Tyler builds screens for his car to protect his team from hail, but the F5 drops softball-sized hail on them. A downed power line traps him with the F5 closing in, but able to escape. Despite all the protections, it still almost breaks the windows. Turkey – A munitions factory is blown up by terrorists and is completely leveled.

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Picnic Surprise, Chemical Inferno

Episode 3 • Aug 28, 2008

Oxnard, CA 2/14/05 – An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train hits an 18-Wheeler because of a faulty traffic signal. Iksan, South Korea – A fire starts at a propane filling station. Mountain Home, ID 9/14/03 – Thunderbirds pilot Chris Strickland crashes at an airshow, evading death 1/8 of a second of it crashing. Middle River, MD 9/14/97 – A stealth fighter crashes. Henderson, NV – The PEPCON disaster. Manila, Philippines 5/4/88 – An 8-story department-store comes off its foundations, and crashes into a nearby high-rise flat, but no one is killed. David Ferguson crashes his speedboat twice. St George, Utah 1/05 - The Santa Clara River overflows, and destroys several houses.

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Episode 4

Episode 4 • Sep 04, 2008

Taiwan 7/8/95 – A styrene tanker truck explodes. Cape Canaveral, FL 1/17/97– A Delta II 7925 explodes because of a 19-foot long crack. Thailand – A 40" mock cigarette made from hydrogen-filled balloons at a mock funeral on World No Tobacco Day goes up in flames. Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia 8/8/05 – A climbing expedition's helicopter crashes into the ice from engine problems. Moreton Island, Australia 11/8/97 – The Enterprise freighter is sunk to make a reef, but causes injuries. Fullerton, CA – The Air Day plane crash. Assisi, Italy 9/26/97 – An earthquake destroys St. Francis Church Oklahoma – A tornado devastates most of a pig-farm's buildings. Oklahoma – A tornado hits the El Reno airport. Hawaii 9/11/92 – Hurricane Iniki.

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Episode 5

Episode 5 • Sep 18, 2008

Dallas, TX – An Acetylene factory fire launches tanks onto the road Prince George, British Columbia – At the Sandburst Games downhill race a couch crashes with 3 people. The crash ends the Sandburst Games. New Providence, IO – A new water tower collapses Murdock, IL 9/3/83 – A Railway car with gas derails and burns for 3 days, causing two massive explosions. Phoenix, AZ – Stolen dump truck chase, ending in a crash. Wailua, HI – A helicopter crashes on a ditch. Tiny manages to lift the helicopter off Steve. Mexico City, Mexico – A tanker truck explodes after hitting a train. Mojave Desert, CA 7/12/98 – Ron Cook tries to set a speed record on his motorcycle, but wipes out, however, surviving the crash at 200 mph. Nagasaki, Japan – A typhoon blows a building past a hotel where a travelling English folk-dance team is staying.

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Episode 6

Episode 6 • Sep 25, 2008

Cranesville, NY 4/27/02 – The fire department trains to set an old house on fire. It explodes, because the fuel was soaked into the wood. Weatherford, TX 10/8/05 – A Police chase ends in a 120 mph head-on crash Plymouth, England – The King of Shaves speedboat crashes. Three Rivers, TX 8/25/90 – Gas dire tank explosion. Thinan, Taiwan – A rescue-training helicopter crashes into water during a rescue training exercise. 1970s Nuclear flask crash test footage. La Paz, Bolivia – Domestic call with a rigged propane trap that blows the house up around police. England 1998 - A fireworks factory catches on fire and fireworks shoot out. No one was injured. Sevastopol, Ukraine 7/10/06 – Tupolev Tu-134 05 crashes on takeoff because of a bird that went into the engine.

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Season 2

12 episodes
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Episode 1 • Mar 30, 2009

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Episode 2 • Mar 30, 2009

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Episode 3 • Apr 02, 2009

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Episode 4 • Apr 02, 2009

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Episode 5 • Apr 13, 2009

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Episode 6 • Apr 13, 2009

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